 In 1957, Marre directed the Jean Anouilh play, "Time Remembered" (translated by Patricia Moyes) on Broadway, which starred Helen Hayes, Richard Burton, Susan Strasberg and Sig Arno.The production received five Tony nominations including Best Play, and Hayes won the prize for Best Actress.He directed a production of "At the Grand", a musical version of Vicki Baum's 1930 novel, "Grand Hotel", in Los Angeles in 1958, with Marre's wife, Joan Diener, as the opera diva who falls in love with a charming, but larcenous, faux baron.